Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.
There are only two kinds of class: First class and no class.
It's somehow symbolic of Hollywood that Tara was just a facade, with no rooms inside.
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.
Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.